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Experienced tutor offering students guidance to success on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and LSAT exams. As a former Social Studies teacher, I can help students with APUSH and AP Government too!
About as long as an #SAT passage, this week's #SmithsonianSunday article gives a background of the technology behind the Times Square #NYE ball, from its beginnings to today. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental

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December 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This week, as Chanukah concludes, we look at a menorah that celebrates the theme of liberation in a way uniquely suited to the Jewish-American experience. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #FestivalOfLights

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Celebrate Hanukkah the All-American Way With This Menorah
In a tribute to liberty, Jewish immigrant Manfred Anson crafted a poignant masterpiece
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December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Another domino tumbles...

The University of Alabama system, which already required tests for scholarship consideration, is returning to using them for admissions as well, beginning with the high school Class of 2028. #TestPrep #SAT #ACT #Admissions #TestRequired

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University of Alabama System campuses announce major college admissions change
The campus system made standardized tests optional in 2020.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Excited to once again attend the National Test Prep Association Winter Workshop in San Diego! It's one of the best ways to learn from other leaders in the industry and stay current. Highlights so far include briefings from both College Board and ACT. #TestPrep #LifetimeLearning #NTPA #SAT #ACT #GRE
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#SmithsonianSunday! This article details the extraordinary planning that went into staging this picture of a skydiver with the sun as the backdrop. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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This Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. Here’s How the Team Captured the Mesmerizing Photo
Months of careful planning and calculations went into the shot. Then, the team had only one jump attempt to get it right
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December 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
While I’m hesitant regarding the author’s call for federal action, I’m in agreement on the broad strokes. Early Decision entails significant pitfalls. #admissions #earlydecision #FoodForThought

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Opinion | The Early Decision Option Is a Racket. Shut It Down.
Colleges should not be allowed to squeeze applicants in a vise.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This week, our #SmithsonianSunday article demonstrates the role A.I. played in uncovering information about the past, including one of the darkest moments in history. Read challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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A Historian Has Finally Uncovered the Identity of the Nazi Gunman in a Haunting Holocaust Photograph
The 1941 image shows a Nazi soldier pointing a gun at the head of a man kneeling at the edge of a pit filled with bodies. With help from A.I., the gunman has been identified as 34-year-old Jakobus Onnen
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December 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This week's #SmithsonianSunday article offers a reconsideration of Grandma Moses and her legacy as an artist. Read challenging and interesting materials to prepare yourself for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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In Her 70s, Grandma Moses Began Painting Lovely Scenes of Rural Life. Then She Became an Icon
A new Smithsonian retrospective explores the legacy of America’s beloved late bloomer, often underrated in art history
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November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There's evidence that developing skills in multiple languages may help slow aging of the brain. Read challenging and interesting materials (perhaps not just in English) to prepare for life and the exams! #ReadingIsFundamental #SmithsonianSunday #TestPrep #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging
An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hellbenders? Snot Otters? Neither name seems complimentary. Nonetheless, biologists are working to save them from extinction.

Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #SmithsonianSunday #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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Scientists Are Releasing the Lovingly Nicknamed 'Snot Otters' Into Ohio Waterways in a Big Success for Conservation
Eastern hellbenders, the largest amphibians in North America, are in trouble, but conservationists are hard at work to help the wrinkled wonders survive
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November 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
During World War I, many soldiers and sailors wrote messages in bottles. One was recently found!

Read challenging and interesting materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT #SendingOutAnSOS

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109-Year-Old Messages in a Bottle Written by Soldiers Heading to Fight in World War I Discovered on Australian Beach
The two letters survived the past century inside a Schweppes-brand bottle, which Debra Brown found on Wharton Beach in early October
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A building in Peru provides evidence that Incan builders designed a structure that could amplify sound. Read interesting materials to prepare for the exams and life. #SmithsonianSunday #ReadingIsFundamental #TestPrep #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music
Researchers will use 3D modeling to assess what the "carpa uasi" in Huaytará, Peru, originally looked like and how sound traveled through it
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November 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The College Board site is among those affected by the AWS outage. Follow the guidelines and information they're posting at zurl.co/DLICa

Also potentially affected are in-school tests, including SAT and PSAT. Check with your school for information specific to you. #SAT #PSAT
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October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wondering about score availability for the PSATs given this month? If you took it by October 10th, expect scores on the 23rd. If you took it by October 14th, you'll see scores on November 6th, and any testing date after means scores come out on November 13th. #ScoreRelease #PSAT

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Score Release Dates for Students and Educators – SAT Suite | College Board
Find out when scores will be released for all assessments in the SAT Suite,
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October 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The U.S. Constitution has been successfully amended 27 times, but there have been thousands of attempts. This week's #SmithsonianSunday article explores some of these efforts. Read challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE

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Twelve Failed Constitutional Amendments That Could Have Reshaped American History
These proposals sought to change the United States' name, abolish the presidency and the vice presidency, and set a limit on personal fortunes, among other measures
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October 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Princeton follows Auburn as the second school to reinstate its testing requirement for the high school Class of 2027. This also leaves Columbia as the only school in the Ivy League that has not reverted to the traditional approach. #Admissions #TestRequired #ClassOf2027

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Princeton to require SAT or ACT scores for applicants starting fall 2027, dropping test-optional policy
Princeton will require undergraduate applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores beginning with the 2027–28 admission cycle, the University announced Thursday. The decision will end a seven-year stint of test-optional undergraduate admissions that began during the pandemic.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New information on the behavior of their magnetic fields is teaching us more about the properties of black holes. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #SmithsonianSunday #ReadingIsFundamental #TestPrep #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's always fun to read about the merger of new tech and old media. This week's #SmithsonianSunday article teaches us that some older new tech is making way for something else at The Louvre. Read challenging materials to prepare for the tests and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental

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The Louvre Stops Renting Out Nintendo 3DS Consoles, Which Helped Visitors Navigate the Massive Museum for 13 Years
Available since 2012, the handheld gadgets are being retired in favor of a new system—but so far, the Paris museum hasn't revealed any details about the replacement
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September 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The historiography of the life of Mary Washington has taken many turns. Today's #SmithsonianSunday article takes it on. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE #LSAT

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The Reinvention of George Washington's Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence
A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743
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September 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
History shows us how the past shapes the world we live in. In today's #SmithsonianSunday article, we see experts bringing letters from the past to their rightful recipients. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental

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A Batch of Undelivered WWII Letters Intended for Japanese Soldiers Ended Up in an Oregon Museum Decades Later. Now, Experts Are Returning the Lost Correspondence to Their Families
An organization devoted to returning artifacts as a way to heal the emotional wounds left by the war is helping the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum send these deeply personal items to the writers' descendants
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September 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The persistence required for success in Test Prep is nothing compared to Akuzawa's. When I'm his age? I'm not sure if I want to do what he's doing. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #SmithsonianSunday #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental

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This 102-Year-Old Man Just Became the Oldest Person on Record to Summit Japan's Mount Fuji
Kokichi Akuzawa is an experienced climber who trained for his journey up the mountain by walking for one hour every morning
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August 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In the popular imagination, there are many myths about Davy Crockett. This week, on #SmithsonianSunday, we get a concise, thorough, and real biography. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams. #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE

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How Davy Crockett, the Rugged Frontiersman Killed at the Alamo, Became an Unlikely American Hero
During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost from none other than Walt Disney
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August 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
LSAC has suspended LSAT testing in China due to rampant cheating. Those living in China can still travel to take the test. It's imperative that LSAC provides proper security, otherwise the exam itself is of greatly diminished value. Stay tuned... #LSAT #LawSchoolAdmissions

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Temporarily Suspending Online LSAT Testing in Mainland China | The Law School Admission Council
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August 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A few decades ago, thieves stole part of a manuscript penned by Hernán Cortés. Now it's been returned to Mexico, the rightful owner. Read interesting and challenging materials to prepare for the exams and life. #SmithsonianSunday #TestPrep #ReadingIsFundamental #SAT #ACT #GRE

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FBI Returns Long-Lost Manuscript Signed by Hernán Cortés in 1527 to Mexico's National Archives
The document, which vanished decades ago, includes logistical details linked to the travels of the Spanish conquistador, who had conquered the Aztec Empire several years earlier
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August 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM